The Promise by Nicola Davies
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The Promise
- “The people had grown as mean and hard and ugly as their city, and I was mean and hard and ugly, too.”
- “But when I tried to snatch it from her, she held on with the strength of heroes.”
- “ . . . and I understood the promise I had made. I held a forest in my arms, and my heart was changed.”
Possible Strategy Instruction:
- C: Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm.
- C: Determine and analyze author’s purpose and support with text.
- C: Infer and support with evidence.
- C: Recognize and explain cause-and-effect relationships.
- A: Try a different letter sound.
- F: Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text.
- F: Read the text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling.
- E: Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in speaking and writing.
